On 9/2/20 9:43 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
I bought an 8TB Seagate USB3 drive Real Cheap at Costco,
which I will eventually "shuck" to get at the SATA hard
drive inside.
Voiding the hell out of the warranty, so I would like to
stress test it for a few months before I open the case.
There are many tools (like bonnie++) that can thrash a
hard drive, but they use more CPU than I would like.
Is there a non-intrusive command-line hard drive test tool
that can stress-test a hard drive for months with minimal
CPU and RAM activity? How do server farms stress test
incoming drives before committing important data to them?
I'm guessing it probably doesn't meet your criteria for a stress test,
but the SMART long test won't load your system at all, since it is
performed by the drive itself. I don't know how well the SMART tests
work over a USB interface. I think there was a time when smartctl
wouldn't work over USB, but that may have been solved long ago.
There's also the badblocks command. I don't know how much it would load
your system, but I bet it would be less than a program like bonnie which
tests performance.
galen
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